Recently I posted a blog about my first foray into 3D game development using LWJGL. Since then, I've worked on adding simple physics to the game using JBullet (a Java port of the Bullet physics library for C++). However, I've been having difficulty with the angular measurement system it uses. It seems to use quaternion rotation, with which I am quite unfamiliar. Actually, that's a bit of an understatement -- I hadn't even heard of quaternion rotation until a few hours ago. This is especially problematic when it comes to rendering the object, as to render stuff in LWJGL I need to pass vectors in pitch/yaw/roll format. The Javadoc doesn't include any information on the subject, and while there seems to be no shortage of forum threads with similar questions, none of the code they use has actually worked for me. Does anyone know how to convert from JBullet's quaternion-based rotation system to the pitch/yaw/roll one usable in LWJGL?

That's worked better than anything I've found previously, but I'm still getting a weird glitch with the yaw where every time I hit 90 degrees (LWJGL uses degrees, so I had to convert the angles) on the yaw, it appears to have its yaw instantly flipped. However, when I told the system to print the angle values, I discovered that it was actually the pitch and roll that were flipped, while the yaw value remained officially 90 degrees. Do you know how to fix this?

Here's my quat-to-Euler code. Since JBullet has its own quaternion class, I made this one as a "helper" class with static methods that take the quaternion as an argument.

I can't say I figured out the problem exactly, but it turned out to be related to my rendering method and not your quaternion conversions. I couldn't fix it exactly, but I found another formula to convert to an axis-angle representation that worked more natively in LWJGL. So, problem solved... I guess.